1538. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20 November 1808

You do not seem yet to have suspected that Kehama [1] was the Butler. [2] Bear in
mind with you that no lame or inharmonious versification will be suffered to stand when the poem comes to be corrected, & that a
great deal of ornament will be woven in. I am getting on in a good vein of story & in good humour with it.